iPodder Fatal Bug

The newest version of iPodder seems to have a fatal bug (at least with respect to manually added feeds). When I add a feed, iPodder tacks an ASCII 00 (^@) onto the feed URL before it stores it in favorites.txt (which is now in ~/.iPodder) and then fails to remove it before it retrieves the RSS file. Since the ^@ encodes to a %00, the feed can't be found. I thought maybe it was a storage problem and deleted the ^@ by hand from favorites.txt, but when iPodder is started up again, it puts it back! Argh!